Chapter 420: Scattered Settlements
Xu Shaolin was stunned for a moment, and said, "Duan Shi, I know the three of them as sworn brothers, and they have acted together before, but was I brought back by them? What happened?"
Fang Zhen sighed secretly in his heart, knowing that Xu Shaolin didn't know anything about it, so he told the matter of the three Duan Shi brothers, Xu Shaolin was stunned, and said: "I see, I didn't expect it to be like this before, I passed out after I was injured, and when I woke up again, I saw you!"
Fang Zhen nodded and said, "It seems that this matter is going to become a mystery for a period of time, Ruozhu and Duan Shi are dead, and Brother Xiao Qiao's life and death are unknown, it is not so easy to know what happened at that time!"
Xu Shaolin sighed, and then took the initiative to say: "As for the scattered residence, I don't know very well, I only know that it is an organization where a group of masters gather!"
"The old body knows that people live in dispersion!" A voice suddenly reached Fang Zhen's ears, it was Wangshu's voice.
Fang Zhen said to Xu Shaolin quietly: "Brother Xu will recuperate for a few days first, if you are not in a hurry, you can recuperate in Meicheng for a few months, and then come to Qingshan Sect to find me, if you are in a hurry, then you can come to me after recuperating from your injuries!"
Xu Shaolin said: "I still have something to ask for about this matter!"
Fang Zhen raised his eyebrows and said, "What's the matter?"
Xu Shaolin said: "I want to join the Qingshan Sect, not as a nominal disciple, but as an official disciple, you are the chief of the Qingshan Sect should have this right, right?"
Fang Zhen didn't expect the other party to make such a request, he touched his nose puzzled, and said: "If Brother Xu wants to repay in this way, you don't have to, I don't think there's any problem with us pulling you like each other, and I also got ...... in the process."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Xu Shaolin, and said: "Definitely, the reason why we have always been named the Hundred Refining Sect is just to find a relatively safe place to cultivate, and now the motivation that once supported me to survive and practice is gone, to be honest, the only one I can trust is Brother Fang at present, if Brother Fang doesn't take me in, I will have nowhere to go!"
Fang Zhen smiled dumbly and said, "I didn't expect Brother Xu to say such a thing, since the words have already been said for this part, how can I disagree?" Then as long as Brother Xu completes the formalities on the side of the Hundred Refining Sect, Qingshan Sect is welcome at any time!"
Xu Shaolin said: "When we became the nominal disciples of the Hundred Refining Sect, we completed the three major tasks of retreating from the sect in advance, so we can leave at any time if we want to!"
Fang Zhen couldn't help but laugh and said, "So you have to go with me?" How do you know that I'm in a hurry to go back to Qingshan Sect?"
Xu Shaolin also smiled: "Intuition!"
The two looked at each other and smiled, and then Fang Zhen said a few more words before turning to leave.
When he returned to his room, Fang Zhen found that Jin Mu was in a daze in his room, so he asked, "You'll leave tomorrow, won't you rest?"
"You just came out of Xu Shaolin, you should have something to tell me, right?"
Jin Mu raised his head and looked at Fang Zhen, and said, "I need to find more things to do, so that I don't have to think cranky, so that I don't have more nightmares!"
Fang Zhen sighed in his heart, and then told Jin Mu about Xu Shaolin in detail.
After listening to this, Jin Mu said: "Xu Shaolin has excellent talent, if he sincerely joins the Qingshan Sect, it will be beneficial and harmless to you, and I have also learned about Kou Shuai and Xu Shaolin before, these two people are extremely popular and have high character, then Xu Shaolin's temperament is quite similar to you!"
Fang Zhen smiled: "Yes, Mumu, if you check it, then there will definitely be no problem." He shook his head lightly and said, "Wangshu, it's time for you to speak!"
When he was in the Langluo Realm before, Wangshu had been recuperating in the Bafang Dingyuan Plate, and it was not until Fang Zhen left the Langluo Realm that he came out and "lived" in Fang Zhen's hair.
Hearing Fang Zhen's words, Pear Blossom Fairy came out of his hair, jumped on the table two or three times, and said, "When it comes to scattered human settlements, you have to talk about the earliest hermit group, do you have any concept of this Jinmu?"
Jin Mu nodded and said: "I have seen some in the ancient books, but I only know that it is true and I don't know why, the hermit group is the earliest cultivator force independent of the sect, if the core of the sect is inheritance, then the core of the hermit group is concealment and crisis management!"
Fang Zhen said: "I can understand that it is a group of cultivators who don't like to toss and turn to find a place to live in seclusion, what does crisis management mean?"
"The earliest hermit group was established after a large-scale demon sect evil cultivator invasion six thousand years ago, an independent sect organization composed of cultivators from all the sects and five qi realms and above in the alliance led by the Taiqing Sect, and its purpose was to deal with extreme events independently of the speed of the sect's operation!"
Jin Mu explained: "The situation at that time was because the various sects did not trust each other and were hostile, so the Demon Gate took a loophole and caused considerable harm, and the Taiqing Sect Master at that time saw the defects of the sect division, and knew that any kind of alliance in this form of separation was useless, so there was the emergence of the hermit group, and the entire organization was composed of those powerful monks who had a higher vision and an independent view of the overall situation!"
"After that, the hermit group gradually developed and distributed, and finally formed a bloated organization, which had lost its original intention, so it was split, and each continent had its own similar organization, and the White Witch incident in Nanzhou three thousand years ago was finally pacified and exterminated by the local organization!"
Fang Zhen blinked, and then sorted out what Jin Mu said in his mind, and gradually understood what kind of organization these hermit groups were.
If the cultivators are a group that is shrouded in the mortal world, then the hermit group is actually a group that is shrouded in the cultivators.
This analogy, though not quite accurate, does give a general picture of the situation.
However, no matter how good the original intention of any organization is, it will always deviate from the original intention with the passage of time and changes in people's hearts.
When Wang Shu saw Fang Zhen's expression, he knew that the other party had understood.
"It seems that you have already thought that the hermit group was indeed to protect the peace of the five continents at the beginning, and their biggest enemy was the demon sect evil cultivators, but as time went by, some hermit groups gradually changed their nature, and even some of the hermit groups were established at the beginning, and some of them were really wanted to get together with the guys who wanted to hide in the world!"
"Sanrenju is such a similar organization, you should know when you hear its name, it was originally aimed at those who did not have the inheritance of the sect, or the organization of the guys who broke away from the sect for various reasons, this organization only accepted those who were above the strength of the real human realm at the beginning, but now it has been downgraded to the Daotai realm, and the nature has completely changed!"
Fang Zhen frowned and said, "So they are now?"